Archive for June, 2009

Brandon has been asking me to blog, but not the Brandon who became married in September. I haven’t blogged since October because I figured out that blogging is generally something that I do in an effort to get people to worship me because I worship myself. In an effort to blog without worshiping myself (because that’s idolatry), I’d like to tell you about some things that are better than my blogging.

I’ll start with the Coffee Oasis place in west Bremerton. The Coffee Oasis place is a facility that his been configured for ministry to lots of different people, but many of them are quite poor in the eyes of the world. Every time that I go there I am reminded of how small my love for Jesus is. This usually happens when I am standing around the few people with whom I am aquanted there and thinking about the best way to make myself sound good. About this time someone starts telling someone else about how amazing Jesus is or what Jesus did for her or how grateful he is to be saved because he is not very smart, but God laid salvation out for him on a silver platter in such a way that he would have been a fool to not choose it. I met one of the Coffee Oasis ministers at Washington State University. Now I attend a different church in west Bremerton with people whom the world would say are significantly more successful than those at the Coffee Oasis, but I have recently been thinking that perhaps my friend has been blessed with greater love for God because he has taken people who have been discarded by the world and made them his community.